Archive for March, 2025

The other side of online poker is its features, giving a chance to brush up his or her poker to any rookie, wishing to be the next year champion. Online poker tips are not so numerous like those for the original poker; but few of them are vital nevertheless. There is an easy way to keep one's poker ROI  over 10%, but this easy way never will give a chance to overcome the limit in digit amounts, i.e. real players are going that cheap and they prefer to play with someone, who can either teach them something, or can lose out a good lump of money. Read more »

Pot odds are critical for all kinds of decision making in poker. For instance, let's say you hold a flush draw on the turn and are facing a bet against what you are sure is a made hand (though one that your flush would beat). You will have nine outs to make a flush, out of 46 cards remaining in the deck (52 minus the four on the board and the two in your hand – all other cards are still unknown). We can round that to say that the odds are 4-1 against us making the flush. Based on pot odds, we can immediately justify a call if we are getting at least 4-1; in those cases, we'll show a profit even if there is no action on the river whatsoever when we hit our flush. Read more »

Once upon a time, a great poker theorist named David Sklansky wrote about an important part of tournament poker (and to a lesser extent, poker in general) which – while well known among professional players – wasn't really part of the knowledge of the average poker player. It dealt with raising, and the kinds of cards that could call a raise, and was called the Gap Concept. Read more »